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May 27, 2020 Dear Residents and Families: The health and safety of our residents and team members is our highest priority. As we continue to face the uncertainty and concern regarding the evolving Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we continue to follow the guidelines of the Illinois Department of Public Health (“IDPH”), McHenry County Health, and Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”). We are unfortunately reporting that one of our Residents and one staff member at Eastgate Manor have tested positive for COVID-19. The last day the employee worked was May 21, 2020. At this time a total of three residents and four…

May 22, 2020 To all Residents, Families and Friends: We wanted to let you know we are working on structuring some visitations between either Resident to Resident, Family to Resident, or Friends to Residents. Although there will be phases of Illinois opening up in June, we cannot plan on opening our doors completely. Through guidance and recommendations from CDC, IDPH, and our Clinical support teams, we want to begin some visits when able. We understand how hard this has been for everyone, and moving forward, we are working on a plan for safe visits with families or resident interactions. We…

May 17, 2020 Dear Residents and Families: The health and safety of our residents and team members is our highest priority. As we continue to face the uncertainty and concern regarding the evolving Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we continue to follow the guidelines of the Illinois Department of Public Health (“IDPH”), McHenry County Health, and Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”). We are, unfortunately, reporting that two of our staff at Eastgate Manor have tested positive for COVID-19. Their last days worked were Sunday May 9th and Wednesday May 13th. At this time, a total of two residents and two staff have…

May 14, 2020 Dear Residents and Families: The health and safety of our residents and team members remain our highest priority. As we continue to face the uncertainty and concern regarding the evolving Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we continue to follow the guidelines of the Illinois Department of Public Health, McHenry County Health, and CDC. We are saddened to announce we have one resident on our third floor and one resident on our first floor west wing, who have tested positive for COVID-19 – a total of two. The Residents are currently in the hospital receiving support of qualified health care…

May 13, 2020 Dear Residents and Families: The health and safety of our residents and team members remain our highest priority. As we continue to face the uncertainty and concern regarding the evolving Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, we continue to follow the guidelines of the Illinois Department of Public Health, McHenry County Health, and CDC. We are saddened to announce we have one resident on our third floor who has tested positive for COVID-19. The Resident is currently in the hospital. To prevent further spread of the disease, Eastgate Manor continues to take the following measures: Facilitating a deep clean of…

Eastgate Manor Update May 7, 2020 To all Residents, Families and Friends: We hope everyone is healthy and doing well. We are sending out a reminder of current restrictions listed last week that will continue until June 1, 2020. Mother’s Day is this Sunday May 10th and we wish all mothers around the globe a very Happy Mother’s Day. We have special lunch and dinner meals planned for all Residents at Eastgate that day. Due to our current restrictions, please remember we cannot have visits to our Residents here at Eastgate unless deemed essential by our staff. If you need…

April 28, 2020 COVID-19 update To all Families and Friends, We hope you are all safe and well. This is our first communication using email so please remember to check your spam/junk folders in the future as we are sending these from our company email address. We have 3-5 families with whom we are communicating through paper mail. We have continuingly said throughout this process, do not hesitate to reach out. We are continuing checks of our Residents’ vital signs approximately every 8 hours per CDC, IDPH, and Clinical Operations team recommendations. Social distancing at 6 feet is always being…

April 10, 2020 COVID-19 update To all Families and Friends, We hope you all are staying healthy during this tough time dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic. For communications purposes, please keep your eyes out for email updates. Please remember to check your spam or junk emails since we have a company email domain. We are checking our Residents’ vital signs up to three times daily per CDC, IDPH, and local health department recommendations. Social distancing at six feet is constant. We are fortunate enough to not have any positive COVID-19 cases at Eastgate. We are continuing with all of our…

March 26, 2020 Hello, Families and Friends: You are receiving this letter because you are the first contact for one of our Residents at Eastgate Manor. With the COVID-19 situation changing daily, our communication is necessary. We called all of you this week to confirm your email address. The majority of communications in the next few months will be via email from Eastgate, so please be on the lookout. We did receive word from a handful of families that still need paper mail. Overall, our Residents and Staff are doing well. We have an amazing staff who are working very…

March 19, 2020 To our Eastgate Manor Residents, Families and Friends, We at Eastgate are taking every measure to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. In addition to screening all staff and medical personnel, we will continue to restrict visitors unless it’s absolutely needed. Beginning on Tuesday March 17, 2020, we temporarily closed our Dining Room, Bistro, Lower Level Activity Rooms and Lobby. We will keep these areas closed until March 25th – or a date to be determined – and update everyone if we are able to reopen the areas. Residents will still be able to get their mail…